Posts Tagged ‘Solutions’

SharePoint imposes several restrictions for the filenames. To get the details of all these restrictions, please check this support article from Microsoft. I have created a utility function to convert a given string to a valid SharePoint filename. This function is valid for SharePoint 2003, 2007 and 2010. Here you go

SharePoint has two very powerful web parts Search Core Results WebPart and Content Editor WebPart . By combining these two web parts along with some jQuery and jCarousel Lite plug-in we can achieve desired results very quickly. The technique described here is very generic and can be used in CQWP and other web parts too.

What we are doing is quite simple. We use jCarousel plugin for jQuery to scroll the elements of HTML unordered list i.e. <ul>. To achieve this we need an HTML code similar to following

After installing SharePoint 2010 Beta, you may encounter “Missing Server Side Dependencies – 8d6034c4-a416-e535-281a-6b714894e1aa” error in SharePoint Cental Administration. It is a very weird error and there is no logical reason behind it:) Microsoft may fix it in the final release of SP2010. Until then here is the solution:

If you are like me and use Virtual PC for developing SharePoint solutions, then you may have encountered the error “Virtual PC has detected an invalid or missing Product ID”. It happens because Virtual PC try to find its product ID in registry, (Yes! I know Virtual PC never asked you to enter the Product ID during installion) and if it does not find it there then it displays this error.

Here is the quick fix for this error:

Open System Properties window by clicking System in Windows Control Panel

You will get the screen similar to the following

Copy the 20 digit long number displayed under Registered to:

Goto Start->Run

Type regedit, It will launch the registry editor

Navigate to the following registry node My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Micorosoft\Virtual PC\5.0\Registration

Edit the value of PID, by double clicking it

Paste the value of Windows Product ID, you have copied earlier. Following is an example screen shot of registry